What are we up to now, four attempts on President Donald Trump’s life? And possibly one on Vice President JD Vance?
This comes amid constant Democratic vilification of Mr. Trump, his staff and conservative Supreme Court justices, who have had to increase their security. Several Cabinet members and other top staff have left their homes and moved to military bases to protect their families from crazies.
On May 5, Arlington County, Virginia prosecutor Parissa Dehghani-Tafti basically declared it was open season for harassing Trump administration officials and their families.
One of many Democrat district attorneys elected with aid from leftist financier George Soros, Ms. Dehghani-Tafti dropped criminal charges against a woman who had gone to Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s Arlington County neighborhood to scare him and his family.
On Sept. 11, 2025, the day after Charlie Kirk’s murder on a Utah campus, activist Barbara Wein and her husband Robert Wein handed out flyers with Miller’s photograph with a red line through it.
“Wanted for crimes against humanity,” the flyer said, along with the Millers’ home address and “No Nazis in NOVA (northern Virginia).”
Upon spotting Miller’s wife, Katie, on the Millers’ front porch, Wein, a “retired peace studies professor” made a gesture to indicate “I’m watching you,” the Washington Post reported.
You know, just free speech stuff. Nothing to worry about. Especially if you have kids. The Millers have three young children with one on the way.
A Virginia statute provides that, “It shall be unlawful for any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass another person, to publish the person’s name or photograph along with identifying information … or identification of the person’s primary residence address.”
The Class 1 misdemeanor carries a maximum sentence of 12 years and a $2,500 fine.
But wait. It was only a Trump official and his family who were being targeted. Plus, Ms. Wein said she didn’t know who made the flyer and denied knowing that the Millers’ address was on it. Right.
Ms. Dehghani-Tafti said that pursuing the charge would “risk having a chilling effect on others wishing to engage in peaceful, political protest.”
Not feeling the warmth after being doxed in their own neighborhood, the Millers moved to military housing.
When shots were fired outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25 at the Washington Hilton, Miller instantly shielded Katie, who is pregnant, with his own body, an act of chivalry that has gone viral on social media. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of California, was arrested and charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
On May 4, a gunman who had been tracking Vice President Vance’s motorcade a block from the White House exchanged fire with Secret Service agents. A child was struck and briefly hospitalized. Michael Marx, 45, of Texas, was arrested.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Marx exclaimed, “F the White House” after being taken into custody.
We’re constantly being told that “both sides” are responsible for the rise in violence and that “both sides” should turn down the rhetoric. But that’s a lie propounded by the legacy media, which see no enemies to the left, even as the left grows more violent.
You might think that the shooting near the White House, which occurred around 3:30 p.m., would be front page news, especially following the attempted assassination of the president only days before.
But the Washington Post buried it in the second section, on page B-20. It was, in fact, the very last story in the entire publication. Out on the front page, however, the Post gaily celebrated its latest Pulitzer prizes. The paper won for feature photography and for the big one: the Public Service Award.
They got the latter largely for siccing hard-left reporter Hannah Natanson to crusade against the Trump administration’s attempts to rein in the federal bureaucracy through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The best argument for freedom of the press is that it’s there to keep government honest and in check. The Post news staff appears to feel otherwise. Instead, they go after any attempt whatsoever to impose accountability on the ever-growing permanent state.
It may have helped Ms. Natanson’s case for a Pulitzer that the FBI had executed a search warrant at her home in January looking for leaked classified information from a federal contractor who was charged under the Espionage Act.
The agents told her that she wasn’t a target of their investigation. But what a feather in her cap.
In its glory days, the Post brought down a sitting president, Richard Nixon, by regurgitating leads fed to them by FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt, whose cover was “Deep Throat.”
During the Obama and Biden administrations, the Post was incurious about any number of reportable scandals, from mass illegal immigration to lies about COVID-19 and the Russian collusion hoax. The latter netted Pulitzers for both the Post and the New York Times, which played key roles in manipulating the public.
That itself should be a major news story. But it doesn’t fit the narrative, so don’t hold your breath.
When the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, the legacy media pointedly ignored it while leftist-controlled social media crushed it.
Dave Burge, who writes at Iowahawkblog, put it best when he observed, “Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”
This column was first published at the Washington Times.
